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Individual atoms keep away from each other or bunch up as pairs | MIT News

http://news.mit.edu/2016/atomic-interactions-room-temperature-superconductors-0915 This is neat: supercooled potassium atoms develop electron-like behaviour, giving a possible mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity.

Bloomberg: Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Five Years on Record

Bloomberg: Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Five Years on Record. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwsMjL8yk

Guest lecture in Food cluster by Gene Baur

Gene Baur, one of the founders of a group called Farm Sanctuary, came to give a guest lecture in our “Food: A Lens for Environment and Sustainability” course Monday. He is an engaging speaker who is passionate about his project — all around a pretty cool guy. And his presentation was well received by theContinue reading “Guest lecture in Food cluster by Gene Baur”

Ancient humans and ecological benefit

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-october-15-2016-1.3803790/coastal-clamshells-1.3803872 Nutrients crucial to plant growth can develop from human habitation sites.

Annual Alexander von Humboldt Memorial Lecture by UCLA Geography

Be there or be square.

The new normal

I am visiting my hometown of Kingston, Ontario, in Canada. The image is of a severe storm warning issued by Environment Canada. For the first time I can remember, we had a serious tornado warning in Kingston.

Mammoth discovery just outside of Vienna

‘Sensational’ mammoth tusks found in Vienna http://www.thelocal.at/20160829/million-years-old-mammoth-tusks-found-in-vienna

YSSP 2016 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Members of the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) for 2016 heard from Presidents Heinz Fischer of Austria (above) and Tarja Halonen of Finland, who spoke on the importance of science in policy-making. It was interesting to hear directly from them, who were involved in many of the high-level negotiations towards international climate change agreements aboutContinue reading “YSSP 2016 at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis”

Ancestral Puebloan occupation dynamics

Excellent! Big data, climate science, and archaeology.

Global climate assessment for February 2016

The following is from a news bulletin from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information: The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for February 2016 was the highest for the month of February in the NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880. It was the highest departure from average among allContinue reading “Global climate assessment for February 2016”